How can there be peace when so many people are, using the modern vernacular, up-tight. Whence comes such? Could it be that humanity has lost its way, given itself up to materialism, lost much of its spiritual roots? We fight within our families, we fight our neighbors, our nations fight other nations, all out of fear it seems, lack of respect and trust. Much of this distrust comes from not seeing what others are feeling under our influences. And this all goes back at least to the Crusades of the 11th century. Wow, such a long time not to have learned any lessons about seeing others as ourselves. This applies observing from any point of view, East, West, North, South, so much fear and hatred. Many say this is all an aspect of the master plan for humanity to learn lessons, lessons toward seeing self as Self, becoming Realized. Others don't even think about it, and still others try to improve the situation for the overall good. The question arises then, just what is the overall good and how do we fit into it, what's our role?

After watching the hatred and wars between the
people of the three religions of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam, I often wonder what's it all about? Why has it gone on for so
many millenniums? If we could take the leaders and sit them down with a
psychologist who understood deeply each of these religions and start
asking questions of why the hatred and when did it start, we might get
to the bottom of it all. Such hatred is illogical and cannot stand the
light-of-day shined upon it.

Such hatred starts by parents teaching it to their children, and such
goes on for generation-after-generation. For, deep-down, there really
isn't much difference in the basic beliefs of each of the religions,
certainly nothing to justify killing and bloodshed. Each points to the
same God, the Creator of heaven, earth, and the universe, and pointing to
humanity having a relationship with that same God.